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If you’ve been clamoring for Tiger Woods to be honest about his behavior when he finally came out of hiding, the details about his first staged public comments ought to reassure you.

“Tiger Woods will be speaking to a small group of friends, colleagues and close associates at 11:00 a.m. EST Friday at the TPC Sawgrass Clubhouse in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida,” a statement from his agent read. “Tiger plans to discuss his past and his future and he plans to apologize for his behavior.”

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Photo taken on Nov. 27, 2009 and released by the Florida Highway Patrol shows damage to the rear driver's side window of Tigers Woods' vehicle in Orlando, Fla.
(AP Photo/Florida Highway Patrol)

Select media will be allowed to attend, yet there will be no questions. One pool camera will be set up.

Tiger will handle the proceedings. He’ll run the show. Watch if you want.

We’ll have to see what gets said. Who knows, he may surprise, although it’s unlikely.

Rather than bemoan such a staged public relations effort, understand that this actually looks like Tiger at his most honest – defiant, distant and likely disgusted that he even has to go through this exercise.

To be clear, none of it bothers me personally – I don’t need crocodile tears or phony, practiced emotion. And that’s likely what Woods would’ve produced in a different setting. It wouldn’t have convinced me he’s sorry, aware or now running on the straight and narrow.

Tiger was never going to do what everyone demanded of him because he’s never done what everyone’s demanded of him. He’s been coddled since he was 2 years old and smacking drives on television shows. He’s been the promise of a billion-dollar lottery ticket living in a protected bubble of yes men, marketing suits and VIP lounge hostesses.

Don’t expect him to suddenly act like a regular guy. To do so would’ve come across as disingenuous.

No question this is going to anger some people who wanted him put under Oprah Winfrey’s interrogation lamp or berated by a pack of journalists.

The thing is, everyone wanted Tiger to be honest. Then they wanted to define honesty for him, to tell him what he needed to say and how he needed to look and where he needed to come clean.

Tiger owes a public apology to his wife, children, mother and in-laws because he has publicly humiliated them. Other than that, I don’t think he owes anyone else a whole lot – other than an admission to the public that his well-crafted image was a complete lie. Although I think we all get that by now.

There’s no need to detail every transgression. No need to discuss girlfriend No. 1, cocktail waitress No. 6, or Perkins breakfast value meal No. 3. Once the Florida Highway Patrol closed its investigation on the November car wreck, that may or may not have included Woods being chased by a golf club-swinging wife, the incident no longer was a public issue.

This is no apologist column for Woods. I’m just a realist. He’s a lousy guy. It’s just he was a lousy guy before, and he may be one in the future, also. He often treated people poorly. He often acted like a boor. Fans didn’t want to hear it because they enjoyed how he played golf. It was fair enough; he wasn’t running for president. We liked him because he won. When you’re choosing which movie to see, you’ll almost always favor the superior actor without regard to his marital fidelity.

Interaction with the public was never Tiger Woods' strength.
(AP Photo)

Obviously, there are segments of the public that now want their pound of flesh. Tiger Woods doesn’t care about them. He never did. They were a means to the private jet, a group that was tolerated but never embraced. For a guy who was almost universally beloved, he always appeared so tortured when he had to interact with a gallery, usually disturbed that anyone on a golf course felt they should engage him.

It was excused as intensity. And perhaps it was. Or perhaps he was tired from the night before. No one knows. There’s no way to know. An hour of squirming moments in front of Barbara Walters wasn’t going to suddenly allow us to know.

The event Tiger has set up will be all about control. It’s ruthless in its absurdity, a “Saturday Night Live” parody of a press conference. I’ve long joked that his first TV appearance wouldn’t be on a network but on his website, with Nike chairman and co-founder Phil Knight conducting the interview.

Turns out I overestimated it. Not even Knight will be able to ask questions.

What you’re going to get Friday is Tiger Woods in full – his way, all the way, in every way. I doubt he cares what you think. I believe he’s troubled that you think you’re owed an apology.

He just wants this to be over so he can go hit some golf balls.

Dan Wetzel is Yahoo! Sports' national columnist. Follow him on Twitter. Send Dan a question or comment for potential use in a future column or webcast.